THE CORNWALL BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1108761 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ISIGHTCORNWALL

The charity's objectives are to promote the welfare of blind and partially sighted people within Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

Objects

TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED AND TO ASSIST IN THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY OF CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY.

Area of benefit: COUNTY OF CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small surplus of £5,670 for the year ended 31 March 2026, an improvement from the previous year's deficit. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future, supported by a prudent reserves policy and diverse income streams.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2025) → 1 (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~10.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 22.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Beatrix Love
• Jahred Love
• Katharine Georgina Claridge
• Kerry Lea Eldridge
• Marcus Paul Slater
• Melanie Richardson
• Nicholas Brian Buckland · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rhys Morris

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Cornwall · Isles Of Scilly

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WIRRAL SOCIETY OF THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED.

• WIRRAL SOCIETY OF THE BLIND AND PARTIALLY SIGHTED income £251k
• DISABILITY CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY income £2.5m
• SOUTH DEVON AND CORNWALL INSTITUTION FOR THE BLIND income £36k
• CORNWALL CARE LIMITED income £34.6m
• CORNWALL ASSOCIATION FOR DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING PEOPLE income £212k
• AGE CONCERN IN CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY income £4.7m

Side by side with its peers

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